Members' Book Club

Check out PA author Jen Bryant's newsletter Flying Tiding (a few lucky members took one of her titles home from our last meeting) Her book Kaleidescope Eyes won another award.

Kaleidoscope Eyes

The Chicago Public Library has named Kaleidoscope Eyes to its 2010 Best of the Best Books list. And it has also been named to the International Reading Association’s Teacher’s Choice list for 2010-2011. If you plan to be at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference or at IRA in Chicago, then please stop by the Random House Children's Books booth for a signed copy!
Books you might like to check out:

PROFESSIONAL:
The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
The Death of Common Sense in Our Schools by Jim Grant
Readicide: How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it by Kelly Gallagher (Outstanding book that challenges testing mania and other anomalies that schools promote that hinder reading in students.)
Why Students Don't Like School by Daniel T. Willingham -Suggested by guest speaker, Dr. Wheaton at our 9-30-09 session

NON-FICTION FOR STUDENTS: Great Reads!
The Soloist by Steve Lopez. Steve will be at Mercyhurst College in the fall 2010
Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen by Joe Drape (football)
A Year Without Made in China by Sara Bongiorni (female journalist spends a year without "made in China" products)
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert (non-fiction about a man who leaves his family to live in the wilderness)
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (wilderness survival, great movie and soundtrack)
Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robison (account of living with Aspberger's Syndrome)
Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization by Hodding Carter (laugh out loud funny)
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (for journalism)
The Year of Living Biblically by A. J. Jacobs (man lives by the rules of the bible)
Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire and Mia Fontaine (for mature audiences - explicit drug use and language - unbelievable book about a daughter's drug use and a mother's love - cannot put down!)

JUST FOR FUN:
My Last Skirt by Linda Durant (civil war woman who spends her life as a man and fought in civil war)
Ms. Spitfire by ? about Anne Sullivan
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (great fiction work for literature circles on the Holocaust)
Burned by Ellen Hopkins (free verse poetry about a girl's escape from her family's persecution - explicit)
Crank by Ellen Hopkins (free verse poetry about a girl's struggle with her addiction to crank - explicit)

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